After less than an hour of deliberation, jurors convicted a former San Diego police officer Monday in the trashing of his foreclosed home in French Valley.

Robert Conrad Acosta, 40, was found guilty of stealing fixtures valued at greater than $65,000 from his foreclosed home in 2010. Jurors convicted his wife, Monique Evette Acosta, 36, who has worked as a real estate agent, last week on the same felony charge.

The foreclosed home on Via Laguna as it appeared a couple months after the Acostas moved out in 2010.

After the Acostas moved out in 2010, authorities discovered the property had sustained more than $100,000 in damage, including missing doors, light fixtures and air-conditioning units, dye poured on carpets, spray-painted graffiti, wiring pulled out of walls and cut, and a gutted kitchen, court records show. The Acostas had taken out a nearly $700,000 mortgage on the home with San Diego Metropolitan Credit Union, prosecutor Marcus Garrett said.

“They took everything but the kitchen sink,” Garrett said, “which was left in the backyard.”

Defense attorneys argued that the Acostas only took items they had paid for with cash and believed were rightfully theirs. Robert Acosta testified during the trial that he did not intentionally or maliciously damage anything in the home and that his life was “in shambles” around the time of the foreclosure.

The Acostas, who were not taken into custody, are scheduled for sentencing July 20.

They declined to comment as they left the courtroom at the Southwest Justice Center in French Valley.

Garrett said his greatest concern prosecuting the case was that jurors might be influenced by ill feelings toward the bank due to their own experiences during the housing crisis. During jury selection, many prospective jurors said they had either gone through a foreclosure themselves or were close to someone else who had, Garrett said. At least one of the jurors who heard the case said he had a bad experience with a bank during a foreclosure, Garrett said.

“I understand that this is a very prevalent problem,” Garrett said. “Sort of the elephant in the room.”

Many people in Riverside County and across the country have been going through a lot of pain as a result of the foreclosure crisis, Garrett said. But what the Acostas did was extreme, he said.